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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Wednesday to agree a sweeping treaty to fight climate change by 2009, telling UN-led talks in Bali to act now on ”the moral challenge of our generation”. Ban said that the threat of global warming had a ”silver lining” because creative solutions could create jobs and ease poverty in developing nations.
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/ 12 December 2007
At least four people were killed and more than 10 wounded in an explosion in a Christian town east of Beirut on Wednesday, security sources said. The sources said the blast in Baabda, the site of Lebanon’s presidential palace on the outskirts of the capital, was caused by an explosive device.
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Tycoon Tokyo Sexwale has thrown his weight behind African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma as both men cemented support in the most powerful voting bloc to go to the party’s crucial Polokwane national conference. The two men adressed about 1Â 500 supporters in the small town of Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday.
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/ 12 December 2007
Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in North Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits. With Spain trying to preserve what remains undeveloped on its built-up shoreline, Morocco has stepped forward as a willing host for large-scale tourism development.
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/ 12 December 2007
Optimists call it the end of the Iron Curtain. Pessimists fear a ”Fortress Europe” or a wave of illegal immigration from December 21, when passports will be checked at fewer European borders. From next March, the extended zone will also include airports in a total of 24 European countries, where more than 400-million people live.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a few days to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a week to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the Mail & Guardian asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>As the clock ticks towards the ANC’s congress, there’s anxiety and excitement. Not only internally, but in the nation, the ANC leadership battle has unleashed new opportunities for renewal and active particiÂpation. Everybody is talking, not just about who’ll lead us, but also about how we want to be led, writes Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a week to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the Mail & Guardian asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future
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/ 11 December 2007
There is a moment when you can sense the power draining away, when a point of no return has been reached and passed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing that moment now in Britain, as a sense of staleness, sleaze and incompetence overwhelms his government.